Berlinale has unveiled the three-person jury for its Best First Feature Award.

Us director and producer Nancy Buirski, Italian actress and director Valeria Golino and Argentinian producer Hernán Musaluppi will decide the award, with the winner announced at the official award ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on Feb 15.

The award comes with a €50,000 prize, donated by the Gwff, and will be split between the producer and director of the winning film, while the director will also be awarded with a high-quality viewfinder.

A total of 18 directorial debuts have been nominated by the heads of the Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino section.

The lineup for this year's Forum section has been unveiled (minus the special screenings which will be announced soon), providing "an overview of independent, artistic filmmaking with a disregard for convention, screening 28 world and eight international premieres from every single continent.﻿"

American actress Josephine Decker delivers both her feature helming debut “Butter on the Latch,” about the strange experiences of two friends in a Californian forest, and her second feature, “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” (pictured), a sensual thriller inspired by “East of Eden,” set on a farm in Kentucky.

A spotlight is put on young filmmakers from Eastern Europe in the program, which includes Estonian filmmaker Veiko Ounpuu’s “Free Range,” Poland’s “Parasite,” directed by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal, and “40 Days of Silence” by Uzbek helmer Saodat Ismailova.

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